Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> May be move the link to some more visible place than end of header line,
>> which people usually ignore. I suggest to replace "Thread:" by "Whole
>> Thread:" and make it linkable. Also, add explanation text into ALT tag.
> I'm not sure that's a good idea. That seems to overload a lot of meaning
> into that field which if anything would be more confusing. Many people will
> probably just think it's another header.
> That said, I'm not saying it shouldn't be made more visible, I just don't
> think that is a good way of doing it.
We already made one change to make this functionality more visible.
Let's wait and see if that seems to solve the problem before making
more-invasive changes.
(Do we have any way of tracking how many visits to the "flat" URLs
there are? If there's a spike since we changed that, it would suggest
that more people are picking up on what the link is for.)
regards, tom lane